R & C MURRAY LIMITED

💤Zombieactive

SC368915 · ltd · incorporated 2009-11-23

Investment thesis

Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.

Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.

Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£23.0k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 99999

Sector: Extraterritorial bodies

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 15.8y

45/100

under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

· Oldest live charge is 15.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

42 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £23,007

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£23k

~ YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Total assets	£23.0k	£23.0k
Debtors	£23.0k	£23.0k
Net assets	£23.0k	£23.0k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2025-09-16
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accounts · AA
2024-09-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-26
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-06-25
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ROCHFORD, Stephen resigned
director
2023-09-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-09-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2017-09-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2016-06-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2015-12-22
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2015-10-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2014-12-08
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2014-09-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2010-10-04
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ROCHFORD, Stephen appointed
director
2010-07-11
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2009-11-23
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Company incorporated
As R & C MURRAY LIMITED
2009-11-23
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MURRAY, Jean appointed
secretary
2009-11-23
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MURRAY, Colin Mcdonald appointed
director
2009-11-23
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-secretary
2009-11-23
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-secretary
2009-11-23
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MABBOTT, Stephen George appointed
director
2009-11-23
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MABBOTT, Stephen George resigned
director

Owner dependency

100/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS

+Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MURRAY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

98/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Limehillock Quarries Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Limehillock Quarries Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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R & C MURRAY LIMITED

This company · SC368915

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Limehillock Quarries Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2009-11-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

9 Glasgow Road

Paisley

PA1 3QS

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-10

Last: 2025-06-26

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

MURRAY, Jean→

secretary · appointed 2009-11-23

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MURRAY, Colin Mcdonald→

director · ~73y · appointed 2009-11-23

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-11-23 · resigned 2009-11-23

Resigned

MABBOTT, Stephen George→

director · ~76y · appointed 2009-11-23 · resigned 2009-11-23

Resigned

ROCHFORD, Stephen→

director · ~66y · appointed 2010-10-04 · resigned 2024-06-25

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Floating charge	1 property	11/07/2010	—

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Recent filings (42 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-09-16

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-07-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-09-18

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-06-26

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2024-06-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-09-15

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-06-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-12-01

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-08-12

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-12-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-08-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-12-11

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2020-12-08

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2019-11-29

accounts-with-accounts-type-small

accounts · AA

2019-09-23